When freight volume surges and available capacity can’t match volume, it can be very difficult to grow your freight broker or logistics business — unless you harness the power of technology like Trucker Tools’. With freight volumes at all-time highs and many drivers getting their own MC numbers to take advantage of spot market rates, we’re in exactly that situation…
As a freight broker business or third-party logistics provider, you’re the “middleman” between shippers and carriers. You really have two customers in shippers and carriers. You’re simultaneously working to find trucks to move your shippers loads, while trying to cultivate good working relationships with carriers and owner operators to move those loads today and in the future. It’s no secret…
Leading 3PL builds on previous integration of Trucker Tools’ real-time visibility and predictive freight matching, launches automated one-click booking to further streamline transactions for owner-operators, small-fleet truckload community RESTON, VA and TAMPA, FL — July 27, 2021 – BlueGrace Logistics and Trucker Tools announced today that BlueGrace has expanded its collaboration with Trucker Tool’s industry-leading digital freight management platform, adding…
Trucker Tools recently interviewed Johnny McCord, CEO of Loadsure, to discuss how the partnership between Loadsure and Trucker Tools benefits you as a broker, how to add Loadsure insurance to your loads on the Trucker Tools platform, and the advantages Loadsure offers to brokers and 3PLs. Our partnership with Loadsure helps you reduce your risk of financial loss in the…
In this blog series Trucker Tools Smart Solutions, we’re helping you solve some of the greatest challenges that you currently face in your brokerage or 3PL business. The biggest problem for most brokers and 3PLs at the moment is capacity: where to find it, how to get it before your competitors and where you’ll get more. The current challenge is…
Adrian Gonzalez of Talking Logistics recently sat down with BlueGrace Logistics’ Chief Operating Officer Mark Ford and Trucker Tools’ Founder and CEO Prasad Gollapalli to talk about how relationships continue to be the driving force behind success in the logistics industry. The webinar included an in-depth discussion of how relationships between brokers/3PLs, tech vendors, carriers and shippers have changed over…
As a broker or 3PL, you know that losing loads to theft, pilferage, accidents or extreme weather unfortunately can be part of doing business. If you’re a small or medium-sized broker, traditional cargo insurance may be prohibitively expensive or lack the coverage you need on specific shipments. Trucker Tools has partnered with Loadsure to provide businesses like yours with per…
Trucker Tools’ integration partnership with McLeod Software is a powerful one, offering you the opportunity to elevate the productivity and profitability of your business. McLeod Software’s PowerBroker transportation management system is an all in one freight brokerage operations management system and complete accounting software designed to help you manage carrier history, capacity and market pricing in one place. Trucker Tools’…
Successful technology adoption is increasingly more dependent on relationship building, communication between truckers and 3PLs. Though as technology automates more work, the value of developing and building relationships, maintaining that personal touch, has never been more important. At the end of the day technology is a tool whose value is gained only when users fully engage and evolve with it,…
According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, “Independent truckers and small trucking companies make up the majority of U.S. freight carriers, with 91 percent of fleets operating six or fewer trucks and 97 percent operating 20 or fewer, according to the American Trucking Association.” The most recent statistics from the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association estimates that more 500,000 carriers…